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Jewel says winter isn’t coming, it’s already here. The Alaska native shared a TikTok of all the snow dumped on her porch. “Came home to a snow storm,” she explained, showing off her personal winter wonderland.

Lance Bass honored the late Leslie Jordan, who died in a car crash on Monday. “Legend is not a large enough word to describe Leslie Jordan. No one made me laugh harder. This one is heartbreaking. Rest well my friend,” he wrote on Instagram. Jordan was 67.

Taylor Swift is ready to release another music video off her Midnights album. She announced on Instagram that her “Bejeweled” music video pays homage to Cinderella — since midnight does play a huge role in the fable. “This video is wild, whimsical and created SPECIFICALLY for you, my beloved fans who have paved this shimmering path,” she teased. She also warned, “Look out for some dazzling cameos!”

Taylor is also in some hot water for another music video of hers. Fans are saying the scene in her “Anti-Hero” music video where she stands on a scale that reads “FAT” is fatphobic. ET Canada reports the issue fans have is that Taylor is very slender and views being fat as a negative. Meanwhile, other fans pointed out Taylor struggled with an eating disorder and was lampooned for gaining weight during her Reputation era.

Need a quick and easy Halloween costume? Vogue recommends dressing up as Harry Styles either during his Better Homes & Gardens shoot or his promotion of Don’t Worry Darling.

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Demi Lovato honored the late Leslie Jordan on their Instagram Story, writing, “My sweet Leslie .. Your smile and personality lit up the room when I met you. I’m so glad we remained friends after meeting not long ago.. we had more plans but our time was cut short. You will be so dearly missed by so many. I’m so honored to call you a friend. I love you sweet angel.” Jordan died Monday in a car crash. He was 67.

Selena Gomez teased new music on Monday, writing on Instagram, “‘My Mind & Me,’ my new song from the upcoming film on @AppleTVPlus, is out November 3rd.” The single arrives at 8 a.m. ET and can be pre-saved now.

Speaking of new music, Taylor Swift is ready to release another music video off her Midnights album. She announced on Instagram that her “Bejeweled” music video pays homage to Cinderella — since midnight does play a huge role in the fable. “This video is wild, whimsical and created SPECIFICALLY for you, my beloved fans who have paved this shimmering path,” she teased. She also warned, “Look out for some dazzling cameos!”

Taylor is also in some hot water for another music video of hers. Fans are saying the scene in her “Anti-Hero” music video where she stands on a scale that reads “FAT” is fatphobic. ET Canada reports the issue fans have is that Taylor is very slender and views being fat as a negative. Meanwhile, other fans pointed out Taylor struggled with an eating disorder and was lampooned for gaining weight during her Reputation era.

Need a quick and easy Halloween costume? Vogue recommends dressing up as Harry Styles either during his Better Homes & Gardens shoot or his promotion of Don’t Worry Darling.

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Ava Max knows heartbreaks are painful and difficult to heal from, which is why her new album, Diamonds & Dancefloors, is about her own recovery.

Ava told Maxim that her new album was born out of the worst year in her life, which had her questioning everything about herself. “A really bad breakup kind of changed my perception on everything, the way I look at life, the way I write music, the way I feel about my hair, which is a big deal for me,” she said.

Ava was known for her platinum blonde “Max Cut,” which was an asymmetrical bob. Since the breakup, however, she has become chameleon-like, trying out several different styles and colors this year.

She is now moving past the heartbreak and hopes her album will help others. “Each song [on the album] is very emotional and also makes you want to dance at the same time,” she said.

Elsewhere in the interview, Ava opened up about being the victim of bullying. One of the worst incidents was in middle school, when a girl lured her into the bathroom. “She put my head in the toilet and I screamed,” she recalled. “We both got expelled and then I went to a private Christian school. And I also got kicked out of that school. So, I had a tough time.”

Ava said her parents, who are Albanian immigrants, chose to homeschool her and sparked her love of music. 

Ava’s mother, Andrea, is an opera singer and is the superior singer. “She could out-sing me any day,” she smiled. “Her opera voice, she can break windows.”

Overall, Ava said she owes much to her parents. “Seeing my parents struggle made me think, how did my parents do it?” she reflected. 

Diamonds & Dancefloors arrives in January.

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Latto gave fans an unexpected surprise during the Atlanta stop of Lizzo‘s Special Tour Saturday and brought out Democratic candidate for Governor of Georgia, Stacey Abrams. 

Holding a “My body, my choice” sign, Abrams made her appearance during Latto’s performance of “Pxssy,” which the Atlanta rapper made in response to the overturning of Roe v. Wade earlier this summer. Latto then gave the mic to Abrams, who encouraged fans to stand up for their rights and exercise their right to vote.

“I’m not going to interrupt your fun,” Abrams is heard saying in a clip posted to Twitter. “I just want to remind you that if you believe it’s ‘My body, my choice,’ I need your vote.”

Latto and the crowd broke out in cheers and applause before Abrams shouted, “This is our time, this is our choice.”

Latto has previously spoken out on issues regarding women’s rights.

“It’s giving pro-choice,” she said during her Best New Artist acceptance speech at the 2022 BET Awards in June. “It’s never giving a man policing my body.” 

Abrams’ appearance during the tour stop marks the latest for the politician, who will be on the ballot for Governor of Georgia in the 2022 midterm elections on November 8.

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Good Burger fans, rejoice, for the hit ’90s movie will soon see its sequel. 

That’s according to the film’s star, Kenan Thompson, who confirmed to Entertainment Tonight that Good Burger 2 is well underway. 

“We’re getting really close on Good Burger 2,” Thompson told ET. “It’s gonna happen, and I think it’s gonna happen soon. We’re gonna figure out when the pocket of time will be to shoot it, but it’s gonna happen.”

Thompson revealed that a draft of the script has been completed and that he and “a couple friends and a couple people from Paramount and Nickelodeon” had a reading of it. “And it was so funny,” Thompson added.

The original Good Burger, which released in July of 1997, stars Thompson alongside All That castmate Kel Mitchell. Thompson said of his longtime TV partner, “Kel has not missed a step,” adding, “It’s like old slippers, and that character is just ripe for jokes. We read like, over 100pages and laughed the whole time. It was so much fun.”

While they haven’t yet started filming the long-awaited sequel, the Saturday Night Live star says “I don’t think anything is gonna derail it.”

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Reba McEntire is “fancy” when it comes to selling records. 

During her debut solo headlining show at Nashville’s Bridgestone Arena on Friday night, the country legend was presented with a plaque backstage for selling more than 58 million albums worldwide. 

After the set, Reba took to Instagram to reflect on the experience, calling it a “very special night.” “Thanks for being such a wonderful crowd. It will sure be a night I’ll never forget,” she shares in the caption alongside a gallery of photos from the show. 

The Nashville show is part of the fall leg of her Reba: Live in Concert tour, which continues through November 19 and picks back up again in March 2023. 

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While her final resting place may not be quite what she was hoping for, Alan Jackson superfan Mary Ann “Marie” Gallant is still getting a special, posthumous honor from her favorite country superstar.

If you followed last week’s viral story about Mary Ann, the Maine woman who hoped to have her ashes spread over Alan’s property, you know that her daughter, Sue Castle, traveled to Nashville with her ashes in hopes of leaving them at their intended destination.

But the story reached so many people that Alan and his team knew she was coming, according to an update from local publication Sun Journal.

Turns out, Alan remembered Marie, a die-hard fan who attended more than 20 of his shows during her lifetime, got a detailed tattoo of his portrait and even once joined him onstage and briefly danced with him to “Remember When.”

While Marie’s ashes won’t be spending eternity on Alan’s property, she is going to be memorialized at his downtown Nashville hot spot, AJ’s Good Time Bar: A tiny exhibit of her favorite car, a 1965 Mustang, will be on display in her honor.

In addition, Sue’s pilgrimage to Nashville earned her free food for life every time she pops back in to Alan’s Nashville bar. She tells the newspaper she’s planning to scatter Mary’s ashes in her own backyard instead.

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Creative Arts Agency, one of the biggest talent agencies in Hollywood, has cut ties with Ye, formerly known as Kanye West, ABC News confirmed Monday. 

The decision follows the anti-Semitic comments Ye posted to social media and reiterated in various media appearances thereafter. 

CAA is the latest organization to end their relationship with Ye. Major partnerships with Balenciaga and Gap have ended, with his Adidas collaboration “under review,” according to a statement listed in multiple reports.

Also revealed Monday is news that film and TV studio MRC won’t release a completed documentary about the rapper. According to The Hollywood Reporter, MRC was in the distribution phase before deciding to shelve the project. 

“This morning, after discussion with our filmmakers and distribution partners, we made the decision not to proceed with any distribution for our recently completed documentary about Kanye West,” CEOs Modi Wiczyk and Asif Satchu, as well as COO Scott Tenley, wrote in a letter, per THR. “We cannot support any content that amplifies his platform.”

In LA Sunday, a white supremacist group showed support for Ye by hanging a banner on the 405 freeway that read, “Kanye is right about the Jews” and “Honk if you Know.”

Ye’s ex-wife, Kim Kardashian, later tweeted in support of the Jewish community saying, “Hate speech is never OK or excusable. I stand together with the Jewish community and call on the terrible violence and hateful rhetoric towards them to come to an immediate end.”

Earlier this month, Ye sparked widespread backlash after wearing a “White Lives Matter” shirt during a Yeezy fashion show in Paris and tweeting, “I’m going death con 3 on Jewish people.” In an interview with Piers Morgan, the rapper apologized to those he hurt but said he’s “absolutely not” regretful about making the statement.

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